Collapsible lantern or shade.



cnARtEsfrtEcm. or" cLnvEtANn, OHIO.

COILJLAPSIBLE LANTERN OR SHADE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

Application filed mach 22, 1909. Serial No. 484,898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAnLnsF noK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new andv useful Improvements in Collapsible Lanterns or Shades, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in collapsible lanterns or shades, the primary object of the invention being to provide av generally improved device of thisclass which will be exceedingly simple in construction, cheap of manufacture, eflicient in use, and much better adapted to its intended poses than any other deviceof the same class with which I am acquainted.

An object of the invention is to provide a lantern or shade of light weight ornamental material capable of assuming various forms when set up, and adaptedto be collapsed or knocked down so as to occupy but little space in transportation or storage andreducing the liability of breakage to a minimum.

With the above mentioned objects in View, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in one of its embodiments in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in. the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1, isa perspective view of the improved collapsible lantern or shade set up in the form of a lantern.

Fig. 2, a top plan view of the same in its collapsed or knock down position. Fig. 3, a perspective view of the same in the form of a double walled dome or shade. .Fig. 4, a plan view of a metal blank preparatory to being formed into a panel-frame for containing and securing the transparent shading material. Fig. 5, a similar View .of one of the base supporting section blanks. Fig.

6, a detail perspective view of one of the di-' agonally disposed reinforcing membersof the panel-frames.

Similar characters of reference designate like parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

As illustrated in the accompanying drawings, the invention comprisespyramid frustums A and B, consisting of a'series of hingedly connected trapezoidal panels and upper base sections hingedly connected there to. It will be observed that when used as a purlantern that thefpyramid frustum B, is inverted as shown in Fig. 1.

The upper base sections of the pyramid frustums A, and B, form the top and bottom supporting sections 1, and 2, respectively, said sections, in the present instance, being hexagonal in shape or outline and are provided about their peripheries with hinge- ;tabs or members3, bent about a wire or bar to form a hinge pintle for hingedly connectin the same to the trapezoidal panels of the nvramid frustums'as hereinafter described. The top section 1, is preferably provided with an opening 4, andfa carrying or sustaining bail member or handle 5.

The trapezoidal panels are hingedly connected to each other at the lower or coincident base portions of the frustums, preferably, by means of hinge tabs or members 6, inclosing a wire or pintle, and to the top and bottom supporting sections 1, by means of hinge tabs or members 7, inclosing the hinge pintle carried by the hinge tabs 3, of said top and bottom sections. The frames 8, of the panels are preferablyformed of a very light thin metallic material and may be blanked out substantially as indicated in Fig. 4, pro viding an opening for receiving and containing suitable transparent shading material, with marginal side Wings 8*, adapted to be bent, as indicated by the dotted lines in. Fig. 4, of the drawings, to embrace the adjacent marginal edges of the shading material carried by the panel frames on the rear or inner sides of the latter. The shading material may comprise any suitable and convenient substance and is preferably mounted in the form of two parts or panels 9, and 10, of different colored material such as colored gelatin, or the like, and supported and reinforced at the meeting edges thereof by means of a diagonally disposed member 11, preferably longitudinally folded or crimped as shown in Fig. 6, to provide receiving grooves 11*, for receiving and containing the adjacent marginal edges of the panels 9, and 10.

When the lantern or shade is lifted from itscollapsed or knock down position as indicated in Fig. 2, by means of the bail member or handle 5, the parts will assume the lantern form shown in Fig. 1, the marginal side edges engaging each other at the lateral edges of the frustums as shown. The lantern form shown in Fig. 1, may be used either as a hand or suspended lantern in closing a candle or other suitable source of illumination and may be suitablysup'ported upon a gas or electric light fixture, inc-losing intermediate hinged portions of the panels to, be expanded whereby the panels of the frustums wil be folded up n e ch o her in radially-extending panels as indicated in v Fig: 2, of t e drawin If th b tt mseotio is el vated f om the 'pq itien'sh w F i Will' arry with t' h u e rou e op s t on n .v theadily-e t d ng d ab al d. ali ls W ll rop d wnw rdly t he id s sum g i s dome or shade osition shown in'Fig. 3,:and the bottornand top sections'may be supported in this position in'a well known manner.

Having thus described my invention, without having attempted to set forth all the forms inwhich it maybe made, or all the modes ofits use, what} claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1.. A collapsible lantern or shade, comprising top andbottom sections hingedly connected to a series of interposed panels hingedly connected to each other by means of hinge tabs inclosing a hinge pintle said panels having their lateral edges engaging each other when said bottom section is suspended and each provided with parts of shading material supported and reinforced at the meeting edges thereof by an interposed bracing member.

2- In a colla .sible la t n r shade, a pyramid frustum body consisting of an upper base ectio a ry ng S r s o hins dl moun ed tru ated fa pan v g their sides abutting against each other at the latral ed e of the Pyram d f t m h n Set up, eac1 of said panels comprising a frame carrying a plurality of parts of shading material and an interposed reinforcing member having grooves containing the adjacent marginal edges of said parts.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

' CHARLES FLEGK.

Witnesses:

O. O. BILLMAN, Gno. H. BILLMAN. 

